Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side-splitting vulgarity of "Our Boarding House" belonged to the same school as the wry "Indoor Sports" which famed, one-handed Thomas Aloysius ("Tad") Dorgan drew for King Features for 22 years. When Dorgan died in 1929 King Features spotted Ahern as his possible successor. By 1934 they were talking it over with the cartoonist. By last July N. E. A.'s spectacled, able President Frederick S. Ferguson was quietly preparing to carry on without Ahern the daily and Sunday doings of Hoople & Co., which legally belong not to the cartoonist but to the syndicate. Reported inducements which...
Contrary to general belief, the royal properties on which the Civil List is virtually a token payment of income belong not to the British Government but solely and legally to the head of the Royal House of England. They include mines, forests, farmlands, beaches and rivers the length & breadth of Britain as well as the King's "rights" on fish taken from his rivers, coal from his Welsh mines. To him belong London's New Gallery and His Majesty's Theatres, Holborn and Criterion restaurants, Carlton Hotel, the southern side of Piccadilly Circus and both sides...
...King also belong the draughty palaces of Buckingham, Windsor, Sandringham, Balmoral, St. James's and livable little Fort Belvedere, all valued at about $25,000,000; their collections of old paintings valued at $5,000,000; books and documents worth $2,000,000; George V's stamp collection appraised at $2,000,000; the late Queen Alexandra's $3,000,000 jewelry collection; and the 1,000-piece gold dinner set in the vaults of Buckingham Palace ($10,000,000). Total...
...Veneration for the sepulchre and reverence for the dead belong to the most ancient instincts of the human race. . . . This day the discord of party passion divides us not. ... . There are no minority views in this committee's report. It is accepted by unanimous consent without debate. That report constitutes the epitaph of ... seven strong men. . . . Their roll calls have all been answered. Their speeches have all been uttered. Their offices have been vacated by the decree of fate. Soon others will occupy their places. ... It is one of the inexplicable mysteries of life in which one surrenders...
...support, announced that he would run against Governor Hoffman for that job next May 19 on the sole issue of the Hoffman Case. "For five years," declared he, "I have taken no part in New Jersey political affairs other than to support the candidates of the Republican Party. I belong to no faction within the Party. But from my earliest boyhood two pictures stand out in my memory. One is of Jersey justice as an ideal of fair but unswerving enforcement of law through the orderly processes of the courts. The other is that the office of Governor...